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Description: | Lower part of bow and footplate of an Early Saxon cruciform brooch of unusual form. D-sectioned bow with median groove joining transverse groove on rectangular panel which is decorated with two pairs of rounded edge notches. Below two transverse grooves footplate expands to flat rectangular lappets, both with two drilled perforations (one lappet incomplete). Pronounced half-round mouldings above animal-head terminal with protruding eyes and parallel sided muzzle without nostrils. Stub of catchplate on reverse above a concavity behind the animal head. Probably late 5th - early 6th century.This fragment has been classified as a cruciform brooch because of its zoomorphic terminal. It is however similar to two complete brooches, one from Grave 69 at Holywell Row, Suffolk, and a metal-detector find from Hillington, Norfolk (NMS123). Both of these have square headplates and can perhaps be classified as small-long rather than cruciform brooches.
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